To be shocked Ella's Kitchen pouches have this much sugar??

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I was in Sainsbury's today and I got a pack of strawberry yoghurt pouches for my 8 year old, the type meant for school lunch boxes. My 2 year old was in the trolley holding the box and he wanted one for himself. I thought this is a sugary treat really, and I went down the baby food aisle to see if the yoghurt pouches aimed at babies might give a lower sugar alternative. I was really shocked to find that while the own-brand yoghurt pouches aimed at older kids had 5g sugar per pouch, the Ella's Kitchen baby yoghurt pouches were double that! 9g for strawberry, 11g for mango or berry. I couldn't believe it! Seemingly it is possible to make a VERY sweet very palatable fruit yoghurt with half as much sugar as they use, so why don't they reduce the sugar content? It would be very easy to do this! I've had a look online and even bloody Frubes have a lower sugar content than Ella's yoghurt pouches.

100% this.

Honestly every time I see threads like this I despair, totally illustrates the low levels of literacy and poor education in the UK.

So many people cannot read the back of a packets and draw sufficient conclusion. Of course fresh fruit and veg is better than a pouch, but that doesn't mean a pouch is akin to giving a baby a mars bar ffs.

It’s natural sugar from the milk and fruit so I presume they’re just heavier on the fruit than the standard yoghurts? They’re a really good hack for long haul travel because they don’t need to be refrigerated but beyond that I wouldn’t buy them as they’re a lot more expensive than regular yoghurt and it doesn’t seem necessary to buy a baby specific yoghurt when they can just have the same as the rest of the family.

Majority on this thread have explained her mistake. I’m going to assume many of them are from the UK.

Plus, if I was going to have a dig, I’d probably check my own post for perfect grammar first. (I’m not saying mine is perfect either!)

I always gave my babies plain yoghurt with either mashed banana or grated apple or pear. It wasn't very sweet but if you don't give them the very sweet yoghurts marketed at children then they don't develop a sweet tooth!

A rogue letter because of autocorrect doesn't negate my point. Your ad hominem attack does not make a blind bit of difference to the thrust of my argument; that there is problem in this country with literacy around food. We wouldn't be in the midst of an obesity crisis (including children) if you were correct.

I'm inclined to think that everyone eats far too much fruit, to be honest. In the wild (so to speak, and we are part of the animal kingdom after all), fruit is not available all year round. It's a short-term seasonal thing.

Even worse, the taste of those processed jars and pouches results in them disliking home made food. Utter rubbish.

I don't have low literacy, thank you. I've read the back of the packets and I'm aware it's sugar from fruit. But how does that equate somehow to "better" sugar? Does a high vitamin content negate that and make it fine that the baby is eating more sugar than they're supposed to have in a day from just one snack pouch?

It wasn’t a rogue letter. And your attempt at using a wide range of vocabulary makes your comment a joke. Next time use your words.

we found that with Petites Filous yoghurts years ago (my boys are grown up now) - they were aimed at little ones but the sugar content was astronomical.

Of course they will because fruit is high in sugar

It makes a difference because fruit still has nutritional value. If you were choosing whether to give your child a bowl of strawberries or a bowl of chocolate, the strawberries would be the obvious choice health wise, even if similar in sugar.

Also, a 2 year old is not a baby. Just give him the damn yoghurt.